1 Samuel 17:4 NLT,NIV,ESV

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 17:1-19

Goliath Challenges Israel With No Takers. David Is Sent To Take His Brothers Food (1 Samuel 17:1-19 ). This passage brings us face to face with two figures, the first the formidable Philistine warrior, Goliath, who challenges Israel to send a man to fight him, with no takers, and the second a shepherd boy who is sent to take food to his brothers who are in the Israelite army and to gather news of them. Analysis. a Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and they were... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Samuel 17:1-54

1 Samuel 17:1 to 1 Samuel 18:5 . David and Goliath (E, with additione by R).— In this section two narratives seem to have been interwoven. For the sake of convenience, we may denote one set of passages by (A), and the other by (B), thus:(A) 1 Samuel 17:1-1 Kings :, 1 Samuel 17:32-1 Timothy :.(B) 1 Samuel 17:12-Obadiah :, 1 Samuel 17:55 to 1 Samuel 18:5.The (B) passages, together with 1 Samuel 17:41 and 1 Samuel 17:50, are omitted by very many MSS. of the LXX, including the very important... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Samuel 17:4

A champion, Heb. a man between two, either because he used to come forth, and stand between the two armies; or because he moved that the business should be decided between two, whereof he would be one. Whose height was six cubits and a span; which is not strange, for besides the giants mentioned in Scripture, Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, and Pliny, and others, make mention of persons seven cubits high, which is near double to an ordinary man’s height. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Samuel 17:1-11

CRITITCAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES—1 Samuel 17:1. “The Philistines gathered together their armies.” Jamieson considers that this was twenty-seven years after their overthrow at Michmash. “Shochoh,” now Shuweikek, a village in the hilly region between the mountains of Judah and the plain of Philistia, about eleven miles south-west of Jerusalem and of Bethlehem. “Azekah.” Not certainly identified, but probably the same as Zakariyeh, another site of ancient ruins, about two miles distant, on the same... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 17:1-58

1 Samuel 17:0 Notice: I. David was on God's side. This was a religious war. Goliath fought for Dagon and cursed David by his gods. David fought for Jehovah. Let every child know for certain that he is, like David, a warrior and champion. II. David fought in God's strength. God's Spirit gave him his holy courage, suggested his weapons, and guided the stone from the sling to Goliath's temples. Was not David the man after God's own heart because he so frankly owned God in everything? David and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 17:1-58

Shall we turn in our Bibles to the seventeenth chapter of first Samuel? In the seventeenth chapter of first Samuel, we read where,The Philistines had gathered their armies together [against the children of Israel, Of course] king Saul had gathered his armies together, [They were setting their battle lines. They were digging their foxholes and setting up their battle array on either side of the Elah Valley] ( 1 Samuel 17:1-2 ).Now the Elah Valley is an area that is south and west of Jerusalem,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - 1 Samuel 17:1-58

1 Samuel 17:4 . There went out a champion, Goliath of Gath; a military character well known to the Hebrews. More than thirty years before he had scattered the army of Israel, slain the sons of Eli, and captured the ark, so that even heroes trembled at his name. His height was six cubits and a span; that is, nine feet six inches. Genesis 6:4. Numbers 13:28. 1 Samuel 17:5 . A coat of mail; made of plates of foliated brass, with joints to admit of muscular motion in the arms and the body.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - 1 Samuel 17:1-27

1 Samuel 17:1-27Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle.The battle of ElahWhile the Philistines were posted on the stony hills covered with brushwood which bounded the valley on the south, Saul and his army were posted on a similar stony ridge on its northern side. The valley, one of the most fertile in Palestine, was, at the scene of the conflict, about half a mile broad, with a torrent bed in the centre, which had been scooped out by the winter floods. This is apparently... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - 1 Samuel 17:4

1Sa 17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span. Ver. 4. And there went out a champion. ] a Intermedius, sequester, duellio. The Vulgate calleth him a bastard: and it is held by some that those old giants were the devil’s brats, b and that there was none of them good, no not one, but all αντιθεοι , and θεομαχοι , fighters against God. This man was of the race of the Rephaims. See Joshua 11:22 . ... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 Samuel 17:4

Goliath: 1 Samuel 17:23, 1 Samuel 21:9, 1 Samuel 21:10, 2 Samuel 21:19, 1 Chronicles 20:5 of Gath: 1 Samuel 27:4, Joshua 11:22, 2 Samuel 21:16-Song of Solomon :, 1 Chronicles 20:4-Ruth : whose height: Deuteronomy 3:11, 1 Chronicles 11:23, Amos 2:9 six cubits: According to Bp. Cumberland's calculation, the height of Goliath was about eleven feet ten inches; but Parkhurst estimating the ordinary cubit at seventeen inches and a half, calculates that he was nine feet six inches high. Few... read more